· Private foundation
Someone Elses Child Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $755k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $387k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Apprentice Learning | $65,000 |
| Boch Center | $60,000 |
| Youth Harbors | $60,000 |
| UC Santa Barbara Fdn | $52,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Young Man with a Plan | $50,000 |
| Girls Inc of Lynn | $50,000 |
| Acuavita Foundation | $40,000 |
| Reed Foundation | $35,000 |
| Friends of the Hernandez School | $35,000 |
| Amal Alliance | $30,000 |
| MAIA | $30,000 |
| Hyde Square Task Force | $30,000 |
| Rwanda Youth Partnership | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $403k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
77 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TWTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $284k · revenue +2%
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $207k · revenue +224%
THE REAL PROGRAM INC2× · 2020–2021 · $164k · revenue +248% · 72% of their budget
Funded once
- DPDC PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $40k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $30k
HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPYone grant, 2022 · $26k · revenue -56%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To provide low income, first generation students who attend selective colleges the skills and resources they need to succeed in college and graduate prepared for careers in competitive and high wage fields. To seek upward mobility for…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…
Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
The principal intent of the organization is to conduct activities to advance education reform in public schools, including public charter schools. specifically, the organization will engage in activities to support and transform…
Our mission is to empower youth who are in foster care, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
Bpe drives exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by boston's students…
Educational divide reform, inc. advances the mission to promote global citizenship education, social inclusion and community development through youth education.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.
How this is measured
114 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 114 of the 209 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE REAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds REED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Explorers Inc ↗
- Who funds APPRENTICE LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds RWANDA YOUTH PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds Destiny Arts Center ↗
- Who funds ACUAVITA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING AUDACITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds SMART FROM THE START INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILD AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds PEACE FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds District C ↗
- Who funds SPRINGBROOK NY INC ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds LIFE HOUSE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNCITY DESIGN ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Wellington Management Foundation · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Someone Elses Child Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Someone Elses Child Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Triangle Inc: 90% of income from government
- Family and Children's Services Inc: 78% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc: 73% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc: 52% of income from government
- St Ann's Home Inc: 51% of income from government
- Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores: 30% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: 28% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
- Building Audacity: 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
- The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc: 9% of income from government
- Boston Music Project Inc: 9% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc: 7% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc: 7% of income from government
- Smart From the Start Inc: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Sports Museum of New England Inc: 5% of income from government
- Zumix Inc: 5% of income from government
- Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc: 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
- Young Man With a Plan Inc: 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
- Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc: 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc: 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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